What is Photoshop good for: You can sit home, be warm and fuzzy and claim you just climbed all the way up to mount Everest.

Steve_m Loc: Southern California

You can sit home, be warm and fuzzy and claim you just climbed all the way up to mount Everest.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suspicions-confirmed-couple-faked-photographs-in-everest-climb/ar-AAijWmC?li=BBnb7Kz

Leicaflex Loc: Cymru

Well this is about par for the course these days, no honesty, morals, integrity.

alf85 Loc: Northumberland, UK.

The lazy Photographers tool.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Steve_m wrote:

You can sit home, be warm and fuzzy and claim you just climbed all the way up to mount Everest.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suspicions-confirmed-couple-faked-photographs-in-everest-climb/ar-AAijWmC?li=BBnb7Kz

The article does not state what software was used to fake the "photos". Why blame Photoshop? The morality of guilt by association or assumption. Yes, the photos of the couple are fake, but how we may never know.

Mary Kate Loc: NYC

Leicaflex wrote:

Well this is about par for the course these days, no honesty, morals, integrity.

Clinton????

dusmif

Leicaflex wrote:

Well this is about par for the course these days, no honesty, morals, integrity.

Sorry I quoted the wrong post, so I delete my comments.

dusmif

alf85 wrote:

The lazy Photographers tool.

I do not agree 100% with you, we used to do SOME of the tricks in photoshop in the darkroom, in my days.
Having said that, yes some will get lazy knowing that they can correct their mistakes in photoshop

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

dusmif wrote:

I do not agree 100% with you, we used to do SOME of the tricks in photoshop in the darkroom, in my days.
Having said that, yes some will get lazy knowing that they can correct their mistakes in photoshop

Exactly!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Steve_m wrote:

You can sit home, be warm and fuzzy and claim you just climbed all the way up to mount Everest.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suspicions-confirmed-couple-faked-photographs-in-everest-climb/ar-AAijWmC?li=BBnb7Kz

Not all that surprising, but now they have to live with the lie. They'll probably make guest appearances on TV shows, write a book, and maybe even get a movie deal.

PRETENDER Loc: Micanopy,Florida

They could take up politics or maybe news casting.

Carl D Loc: Albemarle, NC.

Photoshop is good for turning bad images into something unrecognizable that other unskilled people "ooh and awhhh" over and give praise to the unskilled creator.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

PRETENDER wrote:

They could take up politics or maybe news casting.

As police officers, I think their careers might be in jeopardy.

crissx09 Loc: FL-USA

Steve_m wrote:

You can sit home, be warm and fuzzy and claim you just climbed all the way up to mount Everest.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/suspicions-confirmed-couple-faked-photographs-in-everest-climb/ar-AAijWmC?li=BBnb7Kz

Or, like any other versatile tool, it can be used the right way or the wrong way. If you know the difference between wright and wrong you know what I mean.
As a photography tool, is excellent.

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

What is Photoshop good for? You may as well ask what the darkroom is good for. Both have been used to alter photos to lie or mislead. For that matter, photos can be taken in such a way as to mislead straight out of the camera.

People who believe that the main use of Photoshop is to try to fix mistakes caused by laziness, or to attempt to make bad photos into good photos, are sadly misinformed. The best use of Photoshop is to take good photos and make them better - bring out the best in them, just like we used to do in the darkroom.

Photoshop is certainly not a lazy photographer's tool. It takes a lot of time and work to become highly proficient in Photoshop. Any bad reputation Photoshop has is largely caused by those who use it badly.

dusmif

Carl D wrote:

Photoshop is good for turning bad images into something unrecognizable that other unskilled people "ooh and awhhh" over and give praise to the unskilled creator.

It could be, but we all modified our negatives in the past, not as much as in photoshop, but we did. I think 99% of the professional photographers use photoshop or another software, some recognized as the best in the world, which I am sure we can't say they are unskilled. The problem is when we overdo things that are artificial, to correct exposure or a colour I believe it is normal.